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LightningStrikes posted...

No? Trans people can currently use changing rooms and so on as befits their gender and it is unlawful to exclude them unless you can prove a specific reason eg if the hypothetical fake trans people trying to get in to womens spaces actually existed. In other words current law already provides for exactly what TERFs (dont really like the term because it implies they are feminist) claim to be so worried about. Likewise Im not a lawyer but I think that would extend to cis people also. Nobody is especially worried about that part, the worry is that the Tories want to change the Equalities Act to exclude trans people entirely, and also to make it so they would lose discrimination protections based on their gender meaning for instance a trans woman who is paid less for being a woman would be unable to claim discrimination. Yet people will tell you the parties are the same!

Im pretty cross with the whole situation because on the one hand there has been a lot of misrepresentation of Labours stance, but also Labour arent helping by watering down their previous pledge on making gender recognition certificates based on self-id (the proposal is still much better than the current system though). Of course the transphobes arent going to be happy either. By trying to offend as few people as possible they have managed to offend everyone.

Then I don't understand what the bit about "biological womens' spaces" meant